Colin Goddard Bears Witness to Campus Massacre
Texas lawmakers have before them five proposals that would allow those with permits to carry concealed handguns on college campuses. Proponents of the measure say a well-armed campus populace will stand a better chance of stopping a potential school shooter.
“It is no longer illegal to carry a gun at a church. It’s no longer illegal to carry a gun at a governmental meeting. And it no longer needs to be illegal to carry a gun on a college campus,” said Scott Lewis, a community college student and the Texas legislative director for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus ...
Comments (12)
Pamela Baggett-Wallis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We do not need more guns. We need more mental health knowledge and treatment.
Mark Wentlandt via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If this passes, I'm concerned it will quickly be known as the bill of unintended consequences--at least in future history books not appearing in Texas.
Diane Owens via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No new textbooks in Texas may be a good thing given the crazy quilt curriculum created by the SBOE...
Kate Ergenbright via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Cactus Cafe is a bar on campus at UT. I'm pretty sure that counts...
henryj99
Guns on campuses is a good Idea. Now we just need to pass a law that will allow guns in high schools.
Also, to stop all wars, we should give all countries nuclear weapons.
Some Othername
Keep colleges safe for robbers and rapists, please continue making licensees store their guns in cars while in class or in the library so there's a better harvest of guns for vehicular burglars than say at Walmart, Shopping Malls, and Church parking lots where those licensees just carry their concealed handguns with them instead of leaving them in cars.
Thank you
It isn't just the rare mass shootings which are a problem, it's the weekly armed robberies, armed kidnappings etc
Just a couple examples from the MANY:
U of H (second armed robbery in 2 weeks, and a kidnapping)
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7977173&status=ok
San Antonio College (monthly on campus armed robberies)
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Police-release-sketch-of-San-Antonio-College/N-PU6yWol0yQONAkwepGgg.cspx
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Students-question-safety-procedures-after-armed/DzV_ckznrUCQ5IWi5JcPSQ.cspx
Some Othername
@ henryj99
"Guns on campuses is a good Idea. Now we just need to pass a law that will allow guns in high schools. "
Licensees are already allowed to carry Guns are already allowed at Kindergarten-12th Grade schools in Harold ISD in Texas, have been over 3 years without a problem.
Also, Licensees are exempt from the Federal Gun Free School Zone law already in the Federal laws, so what's your point?
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Good for him. That pic of our Gov.will haunt him/ us forever.
Brett Curtis
Out of almost all other public places, a college campus building is not a more sensitive place than any other public place where it's already legal for license holders to carry concealed handguns. A CHL holder can bring a concealed handgun into a daycare, a public library, almost anywhere on campus except inside the buildings, but not in campus buildings? Not in an on-campus library?
The fact is, there is no rhyme or reason for it. The gun banners lost in 1995, and the CHL laws were passed. There were no wild wild west shootouts in the streets. There was no blood spattered in every intersection from road rage shootouts. Now the gun banners are back with the same nonsensical arguments, and their intent is clear. Colin Goddard made it clear in his video interview. This doesn't have anything to do with college campuses. One of his, and the Brady Center, solutions is to make it more difficult for citizens to obtain guns and to reduce (read that eliminate) guns in society.
Fortunately, gun control has been a failure world wide. It's failed in Texas for the last 140 years, and the gun banners are losing. This law is going to pass. Our constitutional rights are going to be restored piece by piece. This bill on campus carry is just the next unconstitutional piece of Texas penal code chapter 46 that's going to be history.
Some Othername
Technically the title of this article is misleading and inaccurate.
"Colin Goddard Bears Witness to Campus Massacre "
See, Colin closed his eyes thinking that if he couldn't see Cho, then Cho couldn't see him. It's the "bury your head in the sand" defensive tactic used by an Ostrich. So Colin listened to Cho reload several times over ten minutes and heard Cho shoot him, then shoot others, then reload, then shoot Colin some more. Colin thinks that playing possum is a better method than getting up and stopping someone like the lady in Tucson did. She had fewer bullets in her than Colin had, and rather than laying down with eyes closed she rose to the occasion and decided to try to choose her own fate rather than rely on the decisions of a crazed person as to whether she lived or died. Colin trusts the crazed more than those proven to be responsible, so I give the proper weight to his opinion..
Tomas Pineda
America is the safest place on earth. And, if Mr. Goddard had been in possession of a firearm and possessed the proper training, he could have potentially thwarted the rest of the attack rather than been shot.
Some Othername
Colin Goddard' cell phone defense technique for gun-free zones works in this case as well as it did for him
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/265455/Bear-s-eating-me-girl-told-
BEAR’S EATING ME, GIRL TOLD MUM IN CALL
A DISTRAUGHT mother listened on a mobile phone as her teenage daughter was eaten alive by a brown bear and its three cubs.
Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave an horrific hour-long running commentary on her own death in three separate calls as the wild animals killed her.
She screamed: “Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it’s such agony. Mum, help!’”
In a second call, a weak Olga gasped: “Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They’re... eating me”.
Finally, in her last call – almost an hour after the first – Olga sensed she was on the verge of death.
With the bears having apparently left her to die, she said: “Mum, it’s not hurting anymore. I don’t feel the pain. Forgive me for everything, I love you so much.”
Moral: either stay out of gun-free zones, or carry more protection than a cell phone